New museum in Alabama tells history of last known slave ship to US and its survivors

MOBILE, Ala. — A museum that tells the history of the Clotilda – the last ship known to transport Africans to the American South for enslavement – opened Saturday, exactly 163 years after the vessel arrived in Alabama’s Mobile Bay. Ceremonies dedicating the $1.3 million Africatown Heritage House and “Clotilda:…Read More